Overview
- After the PSOE’s setback in Extremadura — falling to 18 seats from 28 as PP and Vox reached 60.08% — regional governability now depends on PP–Vox negotiations.
- Sánchez has asked each minister to propose three to four 2026 social measures that the cabinet can approve without a parliamentary vote to recapture momentum.
- The government concedes it is likely to pass only about a dozen additional laws in Congress by summer and still intends to register the 2026 Budget in the first quarter.
- Spokesperson Elma Saiz defended acting through non-legislative decisions, while PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo prepares a year-end balance asserting the legislature is “finished.”
- The left to the PSOE will run divided in Aragón — CHA alone, IU with Sumar, and Podemos separately — and intergovernmental bargaining is intensifying as the PP in Vigo urges central co-financing for the Balaídos stadium works.